Hi, I bought an "USB 2.0 to IDE Dongle" and tried it with my Linux Box (vanilla kernel 2.6.9). First I noticed, that it needs about 10 seconds to detect the new device. I get the following into my syslog:
Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device usingaddress 2 Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB MassStorage devices Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: Vendor: Genesys Model: USB to IDE Disk Rev: 0002 Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: SCSI device sdb: 1667232 512-byte hdwr sectors(854 MB) Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: sdb: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through Nov 30 19:13:53 theofilu udev: creating device node '/udev/sdb' Nov 30 19:13:54 theofilu kernel: sdb: Here it detects the connected hard drive correct, but the last line seems incomplete. A few seconds later I found this: Nov 30 19:14:03 theofilu scsi.agent[6555]: Attribute /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.3/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host2/2:0:0:0/type does not exist I'm not sure what this tells me. I guess this means that the USB controller itself has given up? Is that possible? If I try to read or write from the device or even only call "lsusb", the USB port hangs (Linux still works, only USB is death from now on!) and the previous called command does never return nor I'm able to kill it. In the process table the command has state "D" until I reboot. My motherboard is a MSI KT4V-L with a KT400 chipset. Until today I had no such problems and every USB device I tried worked. But now I don't know where to start searching to solve this problem. Is it the USB controller or the USB dongle or do I need a patch? -- Andreas Theofilu http://www.TheosSoft.net/ --==| Enjoy the science of Linux! |==-- ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
